Kubernetes persistent volumes with NetApp Trident – Part 1
When you followed my blogs lately then you know that I recently installed Rancher locally in my homelab and deployed an RKE Kubernetes cluster on vSphere using Rancher with a simple WordPress workload that makes use of persistent storage on vSphere. For this to happen,…
How to deploy RKE on vSphere with Rancher
In my previous post, I showed you how to install Rancher on k3s running on top of VMware vSphere 7. Once installed, Rancher makes it easy to deploy, run and manage Kubernetes everywhere. This post will take you to the next level and shows you…
How to install Rancher on k3s
In this blog I’ll explain how to install Rancher on a high-available k3s kubernetes cluster with an embedded etcd database and kube-vip as the load balancer in front of the kubernetes controlplane. For those who don’t know Rancher, Rancher is an enterprise container management platform…
Monitor QNAP NAS devices with vROPS SNMP Adapter
vRealize Operations (vROPS) is a great tool to monitor your vSphere environment. What’s so great about vROPS is that it can be extended with (3rd-party) Management Packs to communicate with a wide variety of infrastructure components such as servers, network switches and storage devices and…
Create Custom Names with vRealize Automation 8
In the latest version of vRealize Automation (vRA), version 8, when you create a new blueprint for deploying a Virtual Machine, you probably noticed once you deploy the Virtual Machine it gets a standard machine name something like Cloud_Machine_1-mcmxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. But most customers use their own…
How to: Deploy vRealize Automation 8
As Dimitri already mentioned in his earlier post, a lot has changed. What was previously known as Cloud Automation Services is renamed to vRealize Automation Cloud and there is a new on-premises version, vRealize Automation 8. Both share the same codebase and have similar features and…
Opensource Configuration Management tools integration with vRealize Automation Cloud – Part 2
This is part 2 of opensource Configuration Management tools integration with vRealize Automation Cloud. In part 1 I wrote about using Puppet Bolt together with VMware Cloud Automation Services for installing and configuring software on a deployed VM. A lot has changed since, Cloud Automation…
Accelerating Application Security with Network Insight and External Integrations
Using VMware NSX, your applications can be seamlessly secured, throughout your entire environment. Whether it be on-prem or in the cloud, NSX has got you covered. The journey to application security using NSX’s micro-segmentation can be significantly accelerated by using vRealize Network Insight. As you…
Customizing your CAS deployment using Cloud-Init
In the previous post we’ve seen how to setup and configure Cloud Automation Services, how to use Cloud Assembly to create a fully Cloud agnostic blueprint, how to use input variables and how to integrate Cloud Automation Services with Puppet. In this post I will…
How to use remote access authentication in your Cloud Assembly deployments
In the previous post we’ve seen how to setup Cloud Automation Services, how to use Cloud Assembly to create a fully Cloud agnostic blueprint, how to use input variables and how to integrate Cloud Automation Services with Puppet. Now, I’ll discuss how to access your deployments…
How to create a Cloud Agnostic service in Cloud Assembly
As discussed earlier, VMware released three new Cloud Automation Services at VMworld 2018. Cloud Assembly, Service Broker and Code Stream are the three new golden nuggets. I already discussed the role and functions of these three services and Dimitri already showed you how you can…
Integrate Puppet with Cloud Assembly
In my previous post I configured a vSphere blueprint which can be deployed to my on premises environment using Cloud Assembly. In this post I will walk you through how to integrate Puppet Enterprise with Cloud Assembly and use it in your blueprint so that…
Designing your first Cloud Assembly blueprint for vSphere
In my previous post I configured a vSphere Cloud Zone including Flavor- and Image Mappings, Storage- and Network Profiles. In this post I will walk you through how to design your first Cloud Assembly blueprint for vSphere using the Cloud Account, Cloud Zone and all…
Setting up a vSphere Cloud Zone in Cloud Assembly
In my previous post I deployed a Data Collector to connect my on-premises vSphere environment with Cloud Assembly and also configured a Cloud Account. In this post I will walk you through how to setup a vSphere Cloud Zone including Flavor- and Image Mappings, Storage-…
Deploying a Data Collector for Cloud Assembly
To connect your on-premises vSphere environment with Cloud Assembly, you have to deploy a Data Collector. This Data Collector discovers all kinds of information about your environment and makes it possible for Cloud Assembly to interact with components in your environment such as vCenter, vRealize…